They tried?Where the fuck were they when Disney was buying shit left and right? They should have blocked T-Mobile from buying Sprint! We went from 5 mobile carriers to 3 in less than 10 years.
- A group of seven Democratic U.S. senators and independent Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday urged the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission to reject the proposed $26 billion merger between T-Mobile US and Sprint.
- The senators noted that the four largest wireless carriers including AT&T and Verizon Communications control 98 percent of the market. "Antitrust regulators around the world have consistently blocked four-to-three mergers in the mobile and telecommunications industry, and those who have allowed such mergers have lived to regret it," they wrote.
They fought against those mergers, I'll look it up for proof if you insistWhere the fuck were they when Disney was buying shit left and right? They should have blocked T-Mobile from buying Sprint! We went from 5 mobile carriers to 3 in less than 10 years.
Good.They fought against those mergers, I'll look it up for proof if you insist
Failure to enforce anti-trust laws is a major problem in this country though, just not in this particular scenario. And the biggest hurdle to getting anything done remains the Senate where Republicans retain a majority thanks to Manchin and Sinema. The marijuana decriminalization bill that just passed the House is DOA in the Senate, for example.With all the problems facing our country going on right now, these stupid cocksuckers choose this to focus on. Our tax money and public servants at work, people.
In what sense would absorbing ActiBlizzard actually make Microsoft a monopoly though? They came in third in the console race last generation, and Valve is far more dominant in the PC gaming space than MS. Additionally, they've pledged to keep ActiBlizzard IPs multi-platform, just as Sony did with Bungie.Could we not be in favor of monopolistic bullshit for a change? I don't see a downside to this happening.
you do realize who funded this so called criminalization of weed in the first place big tobacco ofc even though studies repetivly show smoknig/chewing tobacco causes cancer and weed doesn't (just alt's the state of mind) I bet weeds medicianal benifets were known long before just 5 years ago when this whole medical weed thing started, pills poison your liver overtime it's fact and pretty sure big pharma embargoed the medical weed research for at least a decade priorFailure to enforce anti-trust laws is a major problem in this country though, just not in this particular scenario. And the biggest hurdle to getting anything done remains the Senate where Republicans retain a majority thanks to Manchin and Sinema. The marijuana decriminalization bill that just passed the House is DOA in the Senate, for example.
Yeah and it's mostly the tobacco and alcohol industries funding the opposition to legalization now, as well. Probably a discussion for another thread, though.you do realize who funded this so called criminalization of weed in the first place big tobacco ofc even though studies repetivly show smoknig/chewing tobacco causes cancer and weed doesn't (just alt's the state of mind) I bet weeds medicianal benifets were known long before just 5 years ago when this whole medical weed thing started, pills poison your liver overtime it's fact and pretty sure big pharma embargoed the medical weed research for at least a decade prior